284 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Oct. 24

Benedict Calvert Esq from the Upper House delivers to M.^r
Speaker the Bill entitled An Act to repeal Part of an Act to encourage
the destroying of Wolves Crows and Squirrels; And the Bill entitled
An Additional Supplementary Act to the Act entitled An Act for
erecting a new Parish Church in Kent County called Chester Parish
and for building a Parish Church and enlarging a Chapel of Ease
within the said Parish severally indorsed "By the Upper House of
Assembly 24.^th October 1770 Read the first and second Time by
an especial Order and will pass
Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho."

Which Bills were read here and past for ingrossing
M.^r Contee appeared in the House
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Report
of the Committee appointed to examine the State and Condition of
the publick Offices &.^ta being read; the same is referred for further
Consideration on To-morrow Morning
The House adjourns till To-Morrow Morning Eight O'Clock

Oct. 25

Thursday 25:^th October 1770
The House met according to Adjournment.

The Members were called and all appeared as on Yesterday.
The Proceedings of Yesterday were read

p. 125

M.^r Chase delivers to M.^r Speaker the Petition of the Reverend
Bennett Allen, Rector of All Saints Parish in Frederick County
setting forth "That by the Expiration of the Inspection Law he will
be entituled to receive forty Pounds of Tobacco p Poll and that he is
willing by Composition with his Parishioners to receive for each
Taxable in his Parish the Sum of three Shillings and three Pence
Current Money of America or thirty Pounds of Tobacco on Con-
dition that if paid in Tobacco the Payment be made before the
tenth Day of June Yearly; and on Condition, that the Sheriff of
ffrederick County for the Time being be impowered and obliged to
collect the same by way of Execution for five per Cent for his
Trouble in collecting — And further that he is informed that it would
be agreable to his Parishioners, that the said Parish be divided into
three Parts; and as he apprehends no Division of a Parish can
legally take Place during a Plenarty without the Consent of the
Incumbent, he readily assents to a Law, that the Division of the
said Parish may take Place on his Decease. Which was read
Ordered, That the said Petition be taken into Consideration To-
Morrow Morning
The Order of the Day for taking into Consideration the Report
of the Committee appointed to examine the State and Condition of